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Jacqueline Murekatete

Jacqueline Murekatete is a human rights activist and genocide survivor.

Early Life Born in Gitarama, Rwanda in 1984, Jacqueline was not yet ten when she lost her parents, all six siblings and most of her extended family to the 1994 Genocide Against Tutsis in Rwanda. Speak a bit more about her story/experience and when and how she moved to the United States.

Education Jacqueline left Rwanda in 1995 to live with an Uncle in.... She began to attend high school at...She graduated in ###. After high school, she attended Stonybrook University on Long Island, New York for one year and transferred to New York University, where she graduated with B.A in Politics and English and American Literature in 2007. She is currently attending Law School at Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. She expects to graduate in May 2011.

Activism
 * How/why she was inspired to speak out* . Since giving her first presentation while she was still in high school, Jacqueline has spoken in more than 300 forums, including schools, colleges, universities, community centers, NGO events, UN agencies, and faith-based communities across the U.S., and in Germany, Israel, Bosnia and Belgium. She also addressed the United Nations General Assembly on the tenth anniversary of the Rwanda genocide and regularly participates in human rights, genocide prevention and philanthropy conferences. Independently and with fellow genocide and Holocaust survivors, Jacqueline challenges people around the world to remember, to fight indifference and to peacefully coexist.

Coverage The press has brought her voice to an even greater audience through features in Esquire, New York Times, UN Chronicle, Washington Times, Newsday, People, Glamour, Teen Vogue, NPR, Voice of America, CNN, PBS, NBC, ABC, MTV-U, Polo Ralph Lauren GIVE campaign, and other media outlets worldwide. She has also been interviewed for a number of documentaries on Genocide including The Last Survivor by Righteous Pictures and an untitled documentary film by academy award winning Moriah Films. Most recently, she participated in Kenneth Cole's Book Awearness: Inspiring Stories about How to Make a Difference, sharing her inspirational story with the greater public alongside Bill Clinton, Jon Bon Jovi, Don Cheadle, Mia Farrow, Elton John, Jeffrey Sachs, Jane Fonda and many others.